michaelvoz

As it should be? It is disgusting, offers no benefit, creates a ton of plastic waste and gets children hooked to nicotine.

Better late than never?

Made even more difficult by the fact that the current generation did not "do the deed" so to speak. In your example of Palestinians or Native Americans - the "occupiers" were born here, this is their home now, the original conquering generation is very much gone, what solution can there be?

I too, see Little My.

No, that is patently untrue. Please provide sources for your claim.

Seems like standard boilerplate.

IPO takes months and months of effort and planning. It is not as short term as you seem to imply.

?? So don't buy an iPhone? It's their ecosystem. You are owed nothing.

Encarta had a time and place when I, as a child, had access to disks and wikipedia did not exist yet. What is the point today? Vastly inferior in terms of content by volume, controlled by a single corporation with black box changes to articles (as opposed to Wikipedia's history tracking), impossible to dynamically update after release... I could go on.

Edit: I absolutely cannot stand the smarmy "I wrote code that you use" on his homepage. Sorry buddy, you probably don't.

Right? People raise bees. The people may be black. They may be white. They may be yellow. Or Brown. The people might me muslim, or jewish, or atheist. The bees don't care, and neither do I. I have no idea why it matters.

1) Disappointing HN thread - all about race and little about article?

2) Disappointing article. No depth at all. How is the money spent? How many bees are there? Where does one get bees? Are there flowers around for the bees? How did this person get into beekeeping? Why beekeeping and not, say, an organic garden?

3) Disappointing site - tons of flashing banners and ads everywhere.

What sounds like an awesome, uplifting story that may be replicate-able across the country was turned into an overall disappointing puff piece.

I think you are conflating the notion that, at a given time slice, a majority of the popular sentiment about the future may not have always been positive, with your own opinions of modern engineering.

For vast swaths of human mind, popular opinion tended to see the future as bleak and the past as filled with greater men, accomplishments, etc - the good days are behind us. Post industrial revolution thinking and adoption of science has mostly changed that opinion to hope - the good days are ahead of us.

As for people who can optimize code like back in the day: I am not sure where you work, but I bet if you look at the best engineers in the best tech companies today (google/ Facebook / Netflix / amazon / Uber / palantir) you’ll find a lot to be impressed with.

Rewriting is a very healthy part of software engineering. Sometimes you just didn’t anticipate what the company or product was going to do. The solution you wrote for 1k/qps probably won’t work at a million qps, and it is kind of silly to expect it to.

Agreed. There’s a reason the most educated and capable Chinese move the the US and become Americans. America’s cultural and technological dominance comes from its flexibility borne from a willingness to take in hard working immigrants from anywhere. America is exceptional in that it is a country of immigrants.

I cannot wait for it.

Correlating brain size to intelligence or complexity is a common amateur mistake. Let’s for a second pretend all animal’s brains are black boxes, and we can neither see nor measure them. Instead, let us say we can only judge brains by their impact on the world. Would you then not put humans so far above the other animals as to make it almost silly to compare?

Occupied land of the arapohoe nation? Is this edginess or satire?

Bazel is significantly superior.

I don't particularly feel bad for sex offenders. If you can't control yourself...

Homelessness is not their punishment. Not being allowed in libraries, schools, etc, is.

Artificial market constraints through rent control?

Maybe they should not have committed those crimes. Or are you suggesting they are unfairly punished?

And who are you to dictate what "needs to stop"? This is not tumblr. Your language and tone are not productive. Please suggest solutions and have a civil discussion!

Perhaps I'll start:

I think this is tragic but the average American feels totally powerless to help. In San Francisco the homeless are almost all mentally ill, often dangerous, people from other states. My suggestion would be to pool money from all cities they come from and fund homeless programs outside of SF, outside of metropolitan areas. Then, transfer the homeless there and give them another chance to restart and get the help they need outside of a revolving door urban environment.

Lyft is US and Canada only. Not around the world.

When you enter a private business, they have every right to track you as they wish.

I went for a walk today, around my neighborhood in San Francisco. It was filthy. It was really rather sad. I've been here a long time but am now actively looking to leave. It breaks my heart seeing the beautiful city treated as an open air insane asylum and trash pit.

What a bad attitude. This is cool. Not every project has to set out with the seriousness of curing cancer. Some of the most important discoveries are made tinkering. He also was kind enough to post his processes, methodology, code, etc to everyone on the internet for free, contributing to human knowledge. Maybe someone will read his blog and be inspired to apply techniques from it in ways that radically change the world - or maybe just push the envelope in a niche field somewhere. Who knows. You make it sound like there's not enough tensorflow to go around, and that he is somehow misusing our precious supply! I can't stand negative people like you.

+1 to this. If you are faster than ASIO - consider contributing back. If you are slower, and performance is the goal, what's the point of using your framework?

Uber advanced technologies, routing tech lead here. This sounds interesting. Lets chat?

You can email me: michaelv at uber

Anecdotal single point of evidence: I was trying something for a project at work, and between raw OpenGL, unity, and unreal, the latter two let me get a POC up and running way faster. I work with dozens of ex game industry people, and none of them have done anything from scratch for AAA. Every major studio has tons and tons of layers of engine abstractions to make development easier and faster.

An apt analogy in the service world is that when I want to write a service, regardless of how many years experience I have, I don't implement my own load balancer. Could I? Yes. Should I? Only if my project is a load balancer.

Build what you need. Buy/ participate in OSS for the rest.